Embark, Fashion and Jewellery, Trinidad and Tobago
By Alia Michele Orane ● Issue 134 (July/August 2015)
Eastern elegance: Dhisha Moorjani’s House of Jaipur
For ten years, Trinidadian designer Dhisha Moorjani worked in the retail business, selling handicrafts and home décor from India. Then in...
Music, History, Trinidad and Tobago
By Pat Ganase ● Issue 47 (January/February 2001)
Invaders coming!
The story of Invaders Steel Orchestra One of the oldest steelbands in the world is BWIA Invaders. From their location on Tragarete Road in...
Theatre and Dance, People, United States, Trinidad and Tobago
By Sean Drakes and Glenda Cagodan ● Issue 47 (January/February 2001)
Trinidad’s Aida — Heather Headley
It was minutes before the curtain went up on the Broadway musical, Aida. Unless you count the three grapes and two strawberries she had...
By Caribbean Beat ● Issue 47 (January/February 2001)
Butterfly Pirouette
At last, Auntie fainted. The cameraman’s face had turned green. Mrs Beech drank glasses of water in quick succession. She squirmed in the...
By Roxan Kinas ● Issue 47 (January/February 2001)
John King: standing for something
You can trace John King’s progress by his hair. In 1982, when he appeared as the young “Johnny Ma Boy” in Barbados’s Crop Over...
Embark, Fashion and Jewellery, Barbados
By Alia Michele Orane ● Issue 133 (May/June 2015)
Bajan beauties: designers Shayla Cox and Kimberley Angoy
With “summer” right around the corner, now is the perfect time to hone your style for vacation days ahead. And designers Shayla Cox and...
By Shivanee Ramlochan ● Issue 133 (May/June 2015)
Caribbean Bookshelf (May/June 2015)
Sounding Ground, by Vladimir Lucien (Peepal Tree Press, 73 pp, ISBN 9781845232399) The narrator in one of St Lucian Vladimir Lucien’s...
By Nigel Campbell ● Issue 133 (May/June 2015)
Caribbean Playlist (May/June 2015)
Parallel Overtones — Garvin Blake Brooklyn-based steel pannist Garvin Blake at long last follows up his 1999 debut album Belle Eau Road...